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Definition of Purlieus
1. purlieu [n] - See also: purlieu
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purlieus
Literary usage of Purlieus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Traditions of Edinburgh by Robert Chambers (1825)
"... balance on their own side at Sir William Forbes's and write themselves lairds
of certain tenements in the labyrinthine purlieus or closes behind them, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"The averment as to forests, chases, and purlieus, is not lrem- made necessary by
the act, for the words " where deer arc No such usually kept" extend only ..."
3. The New York of the Novelists by Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1917)
"CHAPTER VII purlieus of Greenwich Village—The Pie Houses of "The Man Hunt"—West
Tenth Street. ... purlieus ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1843)
"... is less likely to have imitators than one who frequents the purlieus of St.
James' Street; while a picture of Eastern manners, when faithfully drawn, ..."
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